Syrian wheat farmers facing crop failure after dry year - in pictures
A farmer ploughs a wheat field in the countryside around the north-eastern Syrian city of Qamishli. As climate change increases the likelihood of fires and drought worldwide, Syria's breadbasket region of Hasakeh has been hard hit by low rainfall. All photos: AFP
Syrian farmer Abdelbaqi Souleiman, 48, checks on his land near Qamishli. He lost his last wheat crop to a wildfire and had hoped for a better harvest this summer. But this spring there was hardly any rain.
A Syrian shepherd empties wheat straw waste for her flock near Qamishli. Farmers in the Kurdish-held region have experienced dismal wheat harvests this year.
Farmers in the Kurdish-held region of Hasakeh have seen dismal wheat harvests this year, raising fears about food security in a war-torn country where 60 per cent of people already struggle to buy food.
Syrian farmer Abdelbaqi Souleiman, right, works with a labourer plowing his land near Qamishli. Farmers in the Kurdish-held Hasakeh region have seen dismal wheat harvests this year, raising fears about food security.
Grain silos in Syria's north-eastern city of Hasakeh. As climate change increases the likelihood of wild fires and drought, this breadbasket region has been hard hit by low rainfall.
Grain silos running low in Syria's north-eastern city of Hasakeh.
As climate change increases the likelihood of fires and drought worldwide, Syria's breadbasket region of Hasakeh has been hard hit by low rainfall.
Michael Robson, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's representative in Damascus.
Farmers in the Kurdish-held region of northern Syria have seen dismal harvests this year, raising fears about food security in the war-torn country.
